Tailoring the Prnt scrn button to work again
By
Frostbiter,
Posted on: 2010-07-20 04:33 in Player Questions
no ideas on this? Is this only affecting me? I guess that means I need to bug report it.
Roxy On DA...Finally!
You might try asking in the technical support forum. Those guys are great at issues like this. Sorry no one here can help.
Is this happening when you're just taking regular gameplay screen-shots or when you are trying to capture screens like the character select screen or the Icon/Facemaker screens to the clipboard?
On my Win7 x64 box, regular gameplay screenshots are fine, they end up in the /screenshots folder as expected but I get blank images captured to the clipboard so pasting into Photoshop, etc just doesn't work as it does on XP.
This is with a NVidia GTX260 on Win7 Home Premium x64 (not sure what drivers as I'm at work atm)
EDIT: Frostbiter is correct, Tech Issues would be a better board for this thread.
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It already does this by default, and only won't do this is the bind was purposely changed. You can restore the bind to default by running /unbind SYSRQ in game. Depending on your UAC setup and how you start the game (i.e. bypassing the updater, with UAC on, in emulation mode), the screenshots will get tossed in C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)City of Heroes\screenshots (IIRC) instead.|
Originally Posted by the_fox_Rox
What can i do to bind/macro contort or twist my print screen button into working the way it did in XP? I hit the button it drops a bmp or jpg into my screenshot folder, or even my pictures would be fine.
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Also, it is a driver related issue when you get the black screen. It isn't universal, but it is driver related (or at least driver-DWM interaction).
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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So as some of you may know the print screen function in winV/7 is a wee bit borked. What did you do to fix it? I remember seeing a thread that covered some details on this awhile ago but can't find it any longer.
Currently my symptoms are as follows. hit print screen...resulting screen is grey where COH should be. Occaisionally this happens when I use the snipping tool as well, when it freezes the screen for snipping the whole screen turns grey. It's not a driver issue. I have the latest drivers for my video card. The snipping tool works ok...sometimes. A planned screenshot is generally not a problem. When I want to take a picture of something 'right now' it's not good enough.
What can i do to bind/macro contort or twist my print screen button into working the way it did in XP? I hit the button it drops a bmp or jpg into my screenshot folder, or even my pictures would be fine.
Thanks for any help. A global fix for this would be really awesome devs.
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